Miami Police Used Clearview AI Facial Recognition in Arrest of Homeless Man
Facial recognition technology is increasingly being deployed by police officers across the country, but the scope of its use has been hard to pin down.
Facial recognition technology is increasingly being deployed by police officers across the country, but the scope of its use has been hard to pin down.
From bite marks to shaken babies, the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences is debunking bad science.
"Responding officers should have immediately recognized the incident as an active shooter situation," the report found.
Police forced 44-year-old Teddy Pittman facedown on the road at gunpoint after mistaking him for a fugitive. When they let him go, they slapped him with a traffic ticket.
In killing Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen hypoxia, the state would be using him as a "test subject," Smith's lawyers argue.
"The First Amendment prevents DeSantis from identifying a reform prosecutor and then suspending him to garner political benefit," U.S. Circuit Judge Jill Pryor wrote.
As one appeals court judge pointed out, Trump's defense could literally let a president get away with murder.
Despite the well-known problems with the kits, they're used in half of the roughly 1.5 million drug arrests in this country every year.
More than 20 people died while in custody of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department last year.
Beware the “Equality Model” of sex work law reform in 2024.
Economic policy commentator Noah Smith compiles evidence that the today's Hispanics are following a similar path to that of Irish-Americans in earlier eras of American history.
"You've got to be able to demonstrate some level of legitimacy" the head of the National Sheriffs' Association says of carrying large amounts of cash.
Police have set bounties on 13 activists, some living in the U.S.
Juries convicted two paramedics and one police officer of criminally negligent homicide but acquitted two other cops.
Two women reported attacks and threats from abusive ex-partners to the police. A lawsuit claimed they were ignored.
Rockstar Games told a U.K. court that it spent $5 million to recover from the hack. Is that worth the rest of a teenager's life?
Big government has been ruinous for millions of people. Charities aren't perfect, but they are much more efficient and effective.
The year's highlights in blame shifting.
And there's still time left in 2023, the way things are going lately in New York.
His lawyers say no jury can ever consider charges based on his "official acts" as president, which include his efforts to reverse Joe Biden's election.
Former state lawmaker Jeff Brandes says the Florida Legislature has "ceded its role" to high-profile Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Police officers already are routinely indemnified, and suing them for abuse is much harder than Trump claims.
The pardons freed no prisoners, but the White House says they will ease the burden of a criminal record.
Law enforcement officials appear to have tarred ad hoc bands of protesters as members of an organized criminal movement.
His mom is rejecting the prosecutors' absurdly strict probation rules.
Judges can sentence defendants for charges they were acquitted of by a jury, a practice that troubles criminal justice advocates, civil liberties groups, and several Supreme Court justices.
An error-prone investigation in search of a fugitive led police to Amy Hadley's house.
S.B. 4 will let officers arrest people well beyond the border. It also “provides civil immunity and indemnification” for state officials who get sued for enforcing it.
Ralph Petty's "conflicted dual-hat arrangement" as an advocate and an adjudicator was "utterly bonkers," Judge Don Willett notes.
FIRE and the ACLU of Vermont are now representing the man in a free speech lawsuit.
An investigation from ProPublica shows that one Knoxville-area facility is putting kids in solitary but skirting scrutiny by classifying the seclusion as "voluntary."
In 2020, Harris Elias was arrested for driving drunk even though tests showed he was completely sober. After filing a lawsuit, he's getting a hefty settlement payout.
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